linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.4 02/96] s390/runtime instrumention: fix possible memory corruption

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Date:   Tue, 05 Dec 2017 17:02:32 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 02/96] s390/runtime instrumention: fix possible
 memory corruption

On Tue, 2017-11-28 at 11:22 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
> 
> commit d6e646ad7cfa7034d280459b2b2546288f247144 upstream.
[...]
> --- a/arch/s390/kernel/runtime_instr.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/runtime_instr.c
> @@ -47,11 +47,13 @@ void exit_thread_runtime_instr(void)
>  {
>  	struct task_struct *task = current;
>  
> +	preempt_disable();
>  	if (!task->thread.ri_cb)
>  		return;

This return path now leaves preemption disabled.  This seems to have
been fixed upstream by commit 8d9047f8b967 "s390/runtime
instrumentation: simplify task exit handling".

Ben.

>  	disable_runtime_instr();
>  	kfree(task->thread.ri_cb);
>  	task->thread.ri_cb = NULL;
> +	preempt_enable();
>  }
>  
>  SYSCALL_DEFINE1(s390_runtime_instr, int, command)
[...]

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.